LAUSD board members will consider resolutions on immigration sanctuary, LGBTQ+ protection and accelerating the teaching of current events at Tuesday’s meeting. Read More…

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LAUSD says its student cellphone ban will start Feb. 18. Schools will decide how to restrict phones, from telling students to put them in backpacks to using magnetically sealed pouches. Read More…

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L.A. Unified is reversing a controversial decision to relax the admissions requirements for some of its most rigorous academic programs after furious debate over how to ensure equitable access to all while maintaining the academic standards in the popular initiatives for highly gifted students. Read more…

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A 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel revived a lawsuit this week filed by Orthodox Jewish families that sued California education officials over the state’s policy of refusing to fund special education programs at religious schools. Read More…

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Under pressure after a conservative group took legal action, the Los Angeles Unified School District will overhaul a $120-million academic program for struggling Black students by eliminating race as a factor in determining which children will be helped. Read More…

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Yahushua’s Law requires school guidelines for dealing with extreme weather A bill requiring local schools to implement protocols for extreme weather situations has been signed into law. Senate Bill 1248, nicknamed Yahushua’s Law, is in honor of a 12-year-old boy who died during PE  at Canyon Lake Middle School during a summer 2023 heatwave. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced…

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Newly released data show that fights and other types of physical aggression among L.A. Unified students are rising as the percentage of middle and high school students who said in a survey that they feel safe on campus continues to decline. Read more…

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Privacy flaws in $6 million system created by AllHere, who Superintendent Carvalho backed, are target of probe Independent Los Angeles school district investigators have opened an inquiry into claims that the district’s $6 million AI chatbot — an unprecedented learning acceleration tool until the company that built it collapsed and LAUSD pulled the plug —…

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Ten Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) community schools will be given an opportunity to pilot new approaches to assessments in the 2025-26 academic year.  And once the schools adopt alternative assessments, they won’t have to participate in standardized tests, other than those mandated by state and federal governments, the district school board decided in…

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At Dymally High School in South Los Angeles, test scores are slightly up, fights are down and teachers can better focus on instruction — and Principal Darvina Bradley credits her campus cellphone ban. Read More…

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A bill that would have required all California families to enroll their children in kindergarten was rejected by the state Legislature on Thursday, the latest of several failed attempts over the years to make the grade compulsory. Read More…

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Students want to know: Will taking data science courses help me get into UC? JOHN FENSTERWALD, EdSource Twice this year, the University of California faculty broadly reaffirmed which high school math courses are required for admissions. However, many school counselors and students, along with the president of the State Board of Education, complain they’re confused by…

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